>>118583656Agreed, and that's just it: The end would be brilliant if it had a good lead up to it, if loose ends like Varvara's plans were wound up more interestingly than "this one character Mignola himself exists solely because he felt the BPRD needed somebody with a +4 damage against fighting demons to survive literally just walks up and chops her head off", if the girl she was posessing didn't randomly turn out to be an evil sorceress in her own right, if the final "thing Hellboy actually fights" was literally anything other than the character who explicitly isn't part of jack shit in the grand scheme. I'm not even opposed to Rasputin returning in general, just-not by being the final boss.
As it stands, the ending feels like it was stolen from a better story. Which frankly, it probably was at the time Mignola still enjoyed writing Hellboy.
>>118583672Is Gaiman not tryhard enough to alienate them? Beowulf, Stardust and Coraline were entertaining for what they were even if not all of them were as profitable as could've been hoped, I believe Neverwhere had a decent cult following and I'll always drool over Mirrormask.
>>118583689It's...I wanna say it's the reverse of what
>>118583714 said. 30% his original ideas, 70% whole cloth spun out to tell their own litttle story. The trick is that 30% is very, VERY condensed from his "greatest hits" like the Candlemaker, Red Jak, the Decreator, Caulder being a cunt etc. But the character dynamics are set up in an entirely different way, especially Cliff and Jane's relationship and Dorothy's with the rest of the team. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's a new story but it pays extreme amounts of homage to it's source material without retreading it.
